The injured miner & the supervisor were attempting to light the #2 kiln's gas flame. While the miner was holding a flare attached to a metal pole at the end of the gas pipe, the supervisor turned on the gas. In the process of lighting, the gas ignited & blew back through the front of the kiln causing burns to the right side of the miner's body. On 5/28/18 the EE passed away.
Lhoist North America of Alabama, LLCOperator
- Fatalities
- 2
- Total incidents
- 315
- Mines on record
- 4
- Years on record
- 2000–2026
Safety benchmark
Recorded fatalities relative to other operators with a fatal MSHA history. Percentile is computed across the 739 operators with at least one recorded fatality.
More recorded fatalities than 73% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
- Heidelberg Materials, Southeast Agg., LLC3fatal318 total
- Nally and Hamilton Enterprises, Inc2fatal314 total
- Lhoist North America of Alabama, LLCthis operator2fatal315 total
- Graymont (PA) Inc.1fatal316 total
- Consol of Kentucky, Inc.1fatal313 total
Methodology: percentile and rank computed across MSHA operators with at least one recorded fatality. Industry mean is the average across that same population. Peers are sampled by closest total-incident count, regardless of fatality outcome.
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Top causes
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 27 non-fatal
- IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST1 fatality · 1 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS98 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON70 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)48 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE25 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
2 recordedDrill operator was fatally injured by the drill rig he was operating. The likely scenario is that the drill rig began to roll forward while he was at the back of the rig operating the controls for the drill. The victim may have attempted to stop the drill rig and was caught up under the rig and suffered fatal injuries. There were no witnesses to the accident.